Subject: Family Trees - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Anna Wendel holds her deceased father-in-law's German passport, which helps establish her and her three children's relationship with Ella Wendel, who died without children and left her multi-million dollar estate to charity. The Southern California Wendels pursued a claim, along with 2000 others across the country, to gain a portion of the New York estate of Ella Wendel after she died in 1931.
Date:: April 22, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Baby David's family moved to Los Angeles nine years ago from Wyoming, and on Christmas they celebrate his new arrival together at the home of his grandmother at 323 East One Hundred and Fifth street.
Date:: December 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Family tree for the wealthy Wendel family of New York. The last of the direct descendants, Ella Wendel, died in 1931. She left her multi-million-dollar estate to several charities. In the wake of her death, 2303 people from across the country filed claims challenging her will. Among them were Anna Wendel of Los Angeles and her children, Frederick Wendel, Helen Wendel Hannah and Lorene Wendel Johnson.
Date:: April 22, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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